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Witch's Magic Manor, released in 1997, is a rocky fortress for the Fright Knights. The set has a rock portcullis, a jail, a secret entrance, and a room for casting spells. Willa the witch is included along with her flying machine, a dragon, a Fright Knight, two soldiers, a skeleton, a forestman prisoner, and various accessories.

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The most noteworthy thing about this set is the Dark Forest minifig. That's actually been the only evidence of this fig's existence in the German cataloge at all as the Dark Forest series was not regularly announced in the catalogue over here.

Back than I only glanced at this set one time in the catalogue and I did not buy it. The design seemed way too freakish to me than. It still does now. However, the assortment of bricks is not too bad. You get some BURPs (if you like them), some light grey and dark grey bricks and arches, two big green bricks (I usually refer to those parts as "big plates"), not least a grey octagonal column. Five minifigs + one skeleton + one dragon is not too bad, either.

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Jojo

This is just the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put.Winston Churchill

At first glance this set is not that attractive, maybe thats why nowadays I think its better then what I thought when I first saw it. Got 256 bricks which is not bad - makes it an medium big set. A nice collection of minifigs from the FK line and one DF and got a nice playabilty. Brick selection is mainly BURPville. If you need/want them thats the right set. Several arches are also included. The weirdness and it's unsymmtrical shpae makes it intresting to look at. I have to say that the pictures don't do perfect justice to this set. It looks better in real life. It's not on my top10 list and not even in my top20. It will never be a LEGEND or something of the sort. But it fits it's purpose and fits nicely with all the FK concept. It's not a bad set as you might think.

I'll give it 8/10.

Oh and it's very Halloween set, so happy scary Halloween everybody

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The only thing I ever really caught my attention about this set is the LURPy gate. I was never a fan of Fright Knights. This looks like it has a good selection of pieces but I was never tempted to buy it. Is that a witchy helicopter that Willa is flying? I am becoming a little bit of a fright knight fan due to some of the torsos. Especially the gray with red fleur-de-lis.

The only thing remotely cool about this set are, as previously mentioned, the pieces. All the LURPS and BURPS (Anyone know why they're called that?) are extremely usefull, as is that nifty little revolving door. I don't own this set and never will, but it had some great parts and minifigs. The set design, as a whole, was worse than the stuff I was building when I was seven.

Uck! 6087 is easily one of the worst Lego sets ever. Personally I think it makes some of the KK2 stuff like good. The good points are it comes with a few useful parts. I like the fleur-de-lis torsos, you can never have too many skeletons, and the dragon isn't that bad. About the only thing I like about main model, are some of the details of the little platform where the witch performs her spells.

Other than that this set is pretty bad. Before I got this set I thought boulder over the gate would be pretty cool (gimmicky I know, but it looked cool). Dozens of tries later it still doesn't work right. 1 out of 3 tries it gets stuck with out falling the whole way. Its never in cased a mini-figure, instead it strikes the mini-figure on the head or arm.

I hate the witch mini-figure. Its 100% useless. The little helicopter thing is a joke. This is CASTLE, not town. Heads should rolled for this a lone. The over all design of the set is super weak. 5 years could have come up with something better.

One of my friends gave this set in mint condition to me for just 5 million TL (that's 3 $). And this is a great sourca for BURPS and a Foretmen minifig.Also you get a dragon. The gate is pretty easy to build from ordinary pieces. An average set that lacks beauty.